WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
June 22, 2021 New Orleans Ah, the Beach Boys, now that was a band that was all about the summer. The line in one of their tunes, “we wish we could all be in California,” was probably talking about beaches and girls, but it popped into my head as I read about a proposal …
June 6, 2021 New Orleans Weatherization is old news in the United States. Such programs, though often woefully small, have been a staple of community action anti-poverty programs since the 1960s. Dilapidated and aging housing stock in lower income neighborhoods often meant atrociously high heating bills throughout the country. Shutoffs were common and emergency assistance …
New Orleans Reading the press release from the Arkansas Legal Services Partnership, there was no doubt that a significant victory for tenants had finally been won. Arkansas had long been the only state that still criminalized evictions for tenants.In other words you could be evicted by the landlord filing criminal charges on you for not …